Shame and the Naked Cage: Zoo Revitalization in Postwar America. How and why do zoos provoke shame? This talk considers the history of feeling bad at the zoo by focusing on the shape of postwar animal displays in U.S. urban regions. Beginning in the late 1950s, shame was a common zoo-going experience, echoed by zoo professionals, urban reformers...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Uddin, Lisa
Created:
2009-09-30
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Shame and the Naked Cage: Zoo Revitalization in Postwar America. How and why do zoos provoke shame? This talk considers the history of feeling bad at the zoo by focusing on the shape of postwar animal displays in U.S. urban regions. Beginning in the late 1950s, shame was a common zoo-going experience, echoed by zoo professionals, urban reformers...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Uddin, Lisa
Created:
2009-09-30
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Jawole Willa Jo Zollar in Conversation with Ananya Chatterjea. Jawole Willa Jo Zollar is the award-winning founder and artistic director of the acclaimed Urban Bush Women. Unflinching, provocative, and truth-telling, Zollar is celebrating her 25th anniversary as one of the most important artists and social agents of our generation. Jawole will d...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Chatterjea, Ananya; Zollar, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar
Created:
2010-10-21
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Jawole Willa Jo Zollar in Conversation with Ananya Chatterjea. Jawole Willa Jo Zollar is the award-winning founder and artistic director of the acclaimed Urban Bush Women. Unflinching, provocative, and truth-telling, Zollar is celebrating her 25th anniversary as one of the most important artists and social agents of our generation. Jawole will d...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Chatterjea, Ananya; Zollar, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar
Created:
2010-10-21
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Collisions of Debt and Interest: Youth Negotiations of (In)debt(ed) Migration and the Best Interests of the Child. Childhood and Youth Studies Across the Disciplines IAS Research Collaborative presents Lauren Heidbrink, Anthropology, National Louis University -- Chicago.Amidst a shift from the state's enforcement and surveillance of the migrant ...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Heidbrink, Lauren
Created:
2013-12-12
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Collisions of Debt and Interest: Youth Negotiations of (In)debt(ed) Migration and the Best Interests of the Child. Childhood and Youth Studies Across the Disciplines IAS Research Collaborative presents Lauren Heidbrink, Anthropology, National Louis University -- Chicago.Amidst a shift from the state's enforcement and surveillance of the migrant ...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Heidbrink, Lauren
Created:
2013-12-12
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Yan Fu Between Tradition and Modernity. Daoism, translation, and science on the cusp of the modern era. Kirill O. Thompson, IHS, National Taiwan University. Yan Fu (1853-1921) translated important philosophic and scientific texts of Victorian England into refined Classical Chinese. He made the ideas palatable to Chinese intellectuals by interlac...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Thompson, Kirill
Created:
2013-10-10
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Yan Fu Between Tradition and Modernity. Daoism, translation, and science on the cusp of the modern era. Kirill O. Thompson, IHS, National Taiwan University. Yan Fu (1853-1921) translated important philosophic and scientific texts of Victorian England into refined Classical Chinese. He made the ideas palatable to Chinese intellectuals by interlac...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Thompson, Kirill
Created:
2013-10-10
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
In the search of a good story: Origins and continuities in writing the history of science. Ahmed Ragab is the Richard T. Watson Assistant Professor of Science and Religion and Director of the Science, Religion and Culture Program at Harvard Divinity School, and Affiliate Assistant professor in the Department of the History of Science at Harvard ...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Ragab, Ahmed
Created:
2015-10-15
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Writing Constitutions into British History. It has become a commonplace that Britain, unlike most other states, does not possess a written constitution. From the 1700s, a succession of politicians, jurists, political theorists and journalists have argued that the slow, piecemeal growth of Britain's system of government reflects a distinctive pre...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Colley, Linda
Created:
2009-11-12
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Writing Constitutions into British History. It has become a commonplace that Britain, unlike most other states, does not possess a written constitution. From the 1700s, a succession of politicians, jurists, political theorists and journalists have argued that the slow, piecemeal growth of Britain's system of government reflects a distinctive pre...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Colley, Linda
Created:
2009-11-12
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
The Magdalene Project: The Ecstasy in Music. Baroque ensemble Consortium Carissimi will explore the name of Mary Magdalene, the role of women in early baroque Florentine culture, and the ecstasy in music, with historical framework provided by Kelley Harness, Associate Professor of Musicology, University of Minnesota. Set for six solo voices, vio...
The Magdalene Project: The Ecstasy in Music. Baroque ensemble Consortium Carissimi will explore the name of Mary Magdalene, the role of women in early baroque Florentine culture, and the ecstasy in music, with historical framework provided by Kelley Harness, Associate Professor of Musicology, University of Minnesota. Set for six solo voices, vio...
Young women in the 'Great Divergence': Textile labor, consumption, and marriage in Europe and China between the mid-17th and the mid-19th centuries. We focus on ideologies and practices around generational relations, the gendered life-cyclical transition between childhood and adulthood, and the arrangement of marriages or other forms of sexual u...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Bruce, Emily; Maynes, M. J.; Roubinek, Eric; Waltner, Ann
Created:
2013-02-21
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Young women in the 'Great Divergence': Textile labor, consumption, and marriage in Europe and China between the mid-17th and the mid-19th centuries. We focus on ideologies and practices around generational relations, the gendered life-cyclical transition between childhood and adulthood, and the arrangement of marriages or other forms of sexual u...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Bruce, Emily; Maynes, M. J.; Roubinek, Eric; Waltner, Ann
Created:
2013-02-21
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Women of Civil Rights Unionism: Organizing the Movement for the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters in the Mid-1920s. Join us for a staged reading of Women of Civil Rights Unionism. The play grew out the Department of African American & African Studies' community-engaged research initiative on the activities of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Po...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Onishi, Yuichiro; Squires, Catherine
Created:
2015-04-02
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Women of Civil Rights Unionism: Organizing the Movement for the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters in the Mid-1920s. Join us for a staged reading of Women of Civil Rights Unionism. The play grew out the Department of African American & African Studies' community-engaged research initiative on the activities of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Po...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Onishi, Yuichiro; Squires, Catherine
Created:
2015-04-02
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Red Venus: From Alexandra Kollontai to Pussy Riot. A panel discussion in conjunction with the current exhibit, Women in Soviet Art, at the Museum of Russian Art. Panelists will address the complex issues raised by the show--concerning the position and iconography of women in the Soviet Union and Russia over 75 years, feminist responses from Alex...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Goscilo, Helena; Hemenway, Elizabeth Jones; Malachowskaja, Natalia; Medvedev, Katalin; Rabinowitz, Paula; Zavialova, Maria
Created:
2013-10-11
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Red Venus: From Alexandra Kollontai to Pussy Riot. A panel discussion in conjunction with the current exhibit, Women in Soviet Art, at the Museum of Russian Art. Panelists will address the complex issues raised by the show--concerning the position and iconography of women in the Soviet Union and Russia over 75 years, feminist responses from Alex...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Goscilo, Helena; Hemenway, Elizabeth Jones; Malachowskaja, Natalia; Medvedev, Katalin; Rabinowitz, Paula; Zavialova, Maria
Created:
2013-10-11
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Women in Religious Texts and Contexts: New Voices in the Biographical Novel. Who were the women of sacred stories and histories, known as wives and daughters, through figures such as Muhammad, Noah or Jacob? Three authors discuss fiction, religious texts and the biographical novel with UM Morris professor Michael Lackey. Anita Diamant was first ...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Diamant, Anita; Jones, Sherry; Kanner, Rebecca; Lackey, Michael
Created:
2013-09-26
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Women in Religious Texts and Contexts: New Voices in the Biographical Novel. Who were the women of sacred stories and histories, known as wives and daughters, through figures such as Muhammad, Noah or Jacob? Three authors discuss fiction, religious texts and the biographical novel with UM Morris professor Michael Lackey. Anita Diamant was first ...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Diamant, Anita; Jones, Sherry; Kanner, Rebecca; Lackey, Michael
Created:
2013-09-26
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Will Weaver‘s debut novel was Red Earth, White Earth, about a native Minnesotan returning to his home town due to conflicts between white farmers and local Native Americans. It was made into a CBS-TV movie in 1989. His 1989 short story collection, A Gravestone Made of Wheat and Other Stories, won many awards, including the Minnesota Book Award...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Weaver, Will
Created:
2014-04-06
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
William Moseley talks to Peter Shea about food security issues in Africa, and some of the food policy issues facing African governments, in light of a recent trip to Botswana.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Moseley, William
Created:
2012-06-26
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
William LaFleur talks to Peter Shea about differences between the beliefs of Buddhist and Judaeo-Christian societies with respect to issues such as abortion and organ donation.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
LaFleur, William
Created:
2006-10-01
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
William Cunningham talks to Peter Shea about his experience as a biological and environmental scientist, his authoring of a leading environmental science textbook, globalisation, and accellerating environmental change.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Cunningham, William
Created:
2008-09-18
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Flavors of Health and Remembrance: Practice and Politics of Wild Vegetable Gathering by Hmong Americans in the Upper Midwest. A presentation by Marla Emery, Research Geographer with the Northeastern Research Station of the USDA Forest Service. Her research focuses on the role of non-timber forest products (NTFPs) in household economies and other...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Emery, Marla
Created:
2010-04-21
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Flavors of Health and Remembrance: Practice and Politics of Wild Vegetable Gathering by Hmong Americans in the Upper Midwest. A presentation by Marla Emery, Research Geographer with the Northeastern Research Station of the USDA Forest Service. Her research focuses on the role of non-timber forest products (NTFPs) in household economies and other...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Emery, Marla
Created:
2010-04-21
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Collective Intelligence: Successes, Challenges, and Opportunities. Loren Terveen is a professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota, where his research focuses on theory-based design of online communities: applying theories from the social sciences to create new interaction techniques and algorithms that elicit mor...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Terveen, Loren
Created:
2012-02-23
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Collective Intelligence: Successes, Challenges, and Opportunities. Loren Terveen is a professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota, where his research focuses on theory-based design of online communities: applying theories from the social sciences to create new interaction techniques and algorithms that elicit mor...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Terveen, Loren
Created:
2012-02-23
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Language learners at Wicoie Nandagikendan immersion pre-school open a Healing Place Collaborative event at the Institute for Advanced Study with song and ceremony.
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Created:
2015-02-05
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Why Scientists Must Dance. John Bohannon, a correspondent for the journal Science and a visiting scholar at Harvard University, will make the case that scientists, now more than ever, must dance. As evidence, he will show the results of last year's Dance Your PhD contest, a viral YouTube phenomenon in which scientists around the world interpret ...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Bohannon, John
Created:
2010-04-22
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Why Scientists Must Dance. John Bohannon, a correspondent for the journal Science and a visiting scholar at Harvard University, will make the case that scientists, now more than ever, must dance. As evidence, he will show the results of last year's Dance Your PhD contest, a viral YouTube phenomenon in which scientists around the world interpret ...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Bohannon, John
Created:
2010-04-22
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Why Philosophy Here and Now? Critical and Transformative Challenges to a Conservative Discipline—Decolonial, Feminist, and Critical Race Perspectives. Academic philosophy has been the home of the allegedly generic rational European man, with epistemology at the center of that home. Join in a conversation with two epistemologists who are commit...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Dotson, Kristie; Scheman, Naomi
Created:
2016-04-14
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Why People Laugh, or, When Did Laughter Meet the Sense of Humor? Animals don't laugh. A guffawing cow has reality only on a label for processed cheese. By contrast, people have always laughed: at births and at funerals, in joy and in sorrow, while viewing scenes of cruelty and acts of kindness, or simply when tickled. But one day laughter became...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Liberman, Anatoly
Created:
2014-04-10
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Why People Laugh, or, When Did Laughter Meet the Sense of Humor? Animals don't laugh. A guffawing cow has reality only on a label for processed cheese. By contrast, people have always laughed: at births and at funerals, in joy and in sorrow, while viewing scenes of cruelty and acts of kindness, or simply when tickled. But one day laughter became...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Liberman, Anatoly
Created:
2014-04-10
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Where is the Human in the Data? This workshop is the launching point for a critical data science study project that is jointly sponsored by the University of Minnesota Informatics Institute and the Institute for Advanced Study. The workshop will include lightning talks by graduate students, table discussions, and developing 10 Questions for Crit...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Hiland, Emma; MacKenzie, Lars; Coral, Deniz; Krieg, Katelin; Fink, Alexander; Van Oort, Madison; Hassoun, Amelia; Savigano, Stephen; Swanson, Link
Created:
2016-09-20
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
When: The Art of Perfect Timing. Carlson School of Management Professor Stuart Albert discusses his latest work, When: the Art of Perfect Timing (Jossey-Bass, 2013), a book on how timing affects all aspects of business, including how to determine the right time to act.Timing is everything. Act too early—or too late—and the results can be dis...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Albert, Stuart
Created:
2013-12-04
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
When: The Art of Perfect Timing. Carlson School of Management Professor Stuart Albert discusses his latest work, When: the Art of Perfect Timing (Jossey-Bass, 2013), a book on how timing affects all aspects of business, including how to determine the right time to act.Timing is everything. Act too early—or too late—and the results can be dis...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Albert, Stuart
Created:
2013-12-04
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
The Moving Cell: When Art and Science Collide How did an unlikely collaboration become so fruitful? David Odde, a biomedical engineer, and Black Label Movement, a collective of dance artists led by choreographer Carl Flink, team up to combine dance and science, shining new light on both. Odde studies the mechanics of cell division and migration....
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Odde, David
Created:
2014-04-24
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
The Moving Cell: When Art and Science Collide How did an unlikely collaboration become so fruitful? David Odde, a biomedical engineer, and Black Label Movement, a collective of dance artists led by choreographer Carl Flink, team up to combine dance and science, shining new light on both. Odde studies the mechanics of cell division and migration....
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Odde, David
Created:
2014-04-24
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
What's Next for the Humanities? Amid rising concerns about the possibility of cuts to funding for the National Endowment for the Humanities, the question of who is safeguarding the future of the humanities is more important than ever. Join us for a conversation with Teresa Mangum, Secretary of the National Humanities Alliance, on current NHA ini...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Mangum, Teresa
Created:
2017-03-20
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
What's Modern about Visuals, Gestures, and Technology?. The Colloquium on Modern Rhetoric will focus on modern rhetorical theory. In the 19th century, the university had not yet fragmented into contemporary disciplinary structures. By 1900, literary studies, psychology and philosophy had differentiated. By 1920, speech-communication coalesced as...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Newman, Sara
Created:
2009-10-23
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
What is it that Makes a Body Whole?. Grigely wants to question what it is that makes the body 'whole' and how legislation, particularly the relationship between the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Civil Rights Act of 1964, fails to address this question. This talk is intended to describe situations and pose questions — Grigely doesn't ...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Grigely, Joseph
Created:
2009-10-28
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
What is it that Makes a Body Whole?. Grigely wants to question what it is that makes the body 'whole' and how legislation, particularly the relationship between the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Civil Rights Act of 1964, fails to address this question. This talk is intended to describe situations and pose questions — Grigely doesn't ...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Grigely, Joseph
Created:
2009-10-28
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
